The Arkansaw traveler., 1887-05-28
LIONEL LA VERB.
.Rx. MIL HupnARpkERNAN.

= Lionel Layere was standing by the passion Where iE broke ins magic .murmurs on the craggy coast of Lee. While the orient was shining with sun-lanccs As the new day flashed upon him with its fra grance dew and song. He, the glorious and gifted, with his poet, 5 X new earth and a new heaven on the lovely coast of Lee; And his soul rhymed with the morning; with arapturous outcry Lifted hee glad hosenne to the purple sweep of sky Lifted he a glad hosanna for the life that
 seemed so fair. 2 For the sweet, respiendent visions that were circled round him there; For the friends whose deep devotion never yet
 to fail was known; For the hopes that marched before him with q
 sp1endor all their own Hopes that lifted high their fiambeau beck
 ming toward the future dim, Pointing to the victor laurels that were blos- For the Grand Ali. Hail Hereafter, far beyond
 the stars and sod, When his mortal race was over, and he
 rounded back to God; Thus with jubilant thanksgiving, did he
 dream of days to be On that miracle young morning by the sing. Moons have toiled down into darkness
 since the morning kissed the brow; In the dust and roar and tumult of city is he
 now. All the joyful flush and splendor of hs youth
 have passed away Golden mornings cannot thrill him as they did
 in that old day, And his blood no longer tingles with riotous delight When T sylvan scene transplendent blooms in
 beauty on his sight, For he sees beyond it's beauty, and "It is a
 masque," he cries, To a1ptten world that reeketh with It's iep-
 rbsies and lies!" Slowly did he learn the lesson that the world
 Redeemed so fair Crucified it's Christ forever, placed it's Pilates That it cursed the Right forever, and forever
 crowned the Wrong, Keeping for the weak it's shackles and its sceptres for the strong. HeShad held creed progressive-pure as star fire of the skies 4He& creed that turned and trampled on all NleprOses and lies: But the rab bble rose in anger and assailed him, ThAA behind their savage statutes was a :, winter, holer law. And they hated its Apostle, for he tore their And revealed their rank pollution to the dag
 gle of the day. One by one his friends forsook him, fearful of
 the public wrath, Leaving him to fight the foemen crowding
 closer in his path. Thus he feared his first sad lesson: Friend ship is an idle tale, And thy friends will all assail thee if the
 world shall first assail One ny one ms hopes Icll uy iuR uhrhSI Sbili
 the world became: Where was now their blazing iiambeau that
 had cheered him with its flame? Where were now the victor-laurels they
 had promised long ago? Where were now the love and friendship they
 had told him he should know Vanished-like the lovely vision of q dear,
 dead face in sleep, Rising from beneath the roses, leaving us to
 wake and weepl Lionel La We're is rottng underneath
 white tree Where he spake his glad hosannas on the
 craggy coast of Lee. Ruined dreams, betrayed affections, faith
 evanished were his lot, Yet the sea sings on beside him, and of man he
 Is forgot Yet the sea sings on beside him, shines the
 sun and flash the flowers, And the wild birds wing and twitter in the
 free and fragrant bowers, And the mad world booms and thunders in its
 passion and it's pride, And men laugh and dance and marry as if he
 had never died. Nature counts the dead as nothing, and she
 frolics OCT his rest, While red -tiroated worms hold riot on the
 heart within his breast Hold the riot and the revel they will hold OCT
 all at last When the dreams and dsappointments of our
 lives are overpast.
 -NetO York Mercury.